This Civil War Submarine Vanished for 136 Years

/ May 24, 2024

From Ask A Mortician.

A Civil War submarine powered by hand cranks and lit by candlelight. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the HL Hunley. 

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SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING

Chaffin, Tom.The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Hill and Wang, 2010.

Hicks, Brian. Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
Spry Publishing LLC, 2015. 

Hicks, Brian, and Kropf, Schuyler. Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate SubmarinePresidio Press, 2003

Lance, Rachel. In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine. Dutton, 2020

The Friends of the Hunley https://www.hunley.org/

"H. L. Hunley: Recovery Operations "https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/hl-hunley/recovery-report.html

"H.L. Hunley Site Assessment "https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/maritime/hunley.pdf

"Humanitarian Exhumation at the Citadel’s Johnson Hagood Stadium" https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=sciaa_staffpub

"HUNLEY (C.S.S)"https://numa.net/expeditions/hunley-c-s-s/

"Crewmen of Recovered Confederate Sub Are Honored at Burial" https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/national/crewmen-of-recovered-confederate-sub-are-honored-at-burial.html

"Putting a Face on Storied Subs Crew" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/04/17/putting-a-face-on-storied-subs-crew/516a24dd-e157-49fa-a601-2d1dc7571daa/

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